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Becca wrote:
> Andy wrote:
>
>> You complained about Al Gore visiting your neighborhood? Don't be
>> coming down to Philly today as Prezzy George Bush arrives in the
>> next 30 minutes or so.
>>
>> They'll shut down the entire stretch of I-95 from the airport into
>> center city in both directions!!!
>>
>> Why don't the brains in D.C. rent him a helicopter!?? It's been done
>> before.
>>
>> Another fine example of our tax dollars at work.
>>
>> I can bitch when I want. I'm a Pennsylvanian.
>>
>> Andy

>
> They also do this for George Bush's father, who is no longer the
> president. Secret Service barricades all of the side streets, so you
> can not get through.
>

They do that for everyone who has held that office, or the office of the VP
and (at least they used to) for all the members of the family who lived in
the White House. For the rest of their lives. Personally, if had had been
a "first daughter" and still had the Secret Service trailing me around I'd
be ****ed off.

Jill